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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Juliette Fay on The Half of It
Description: First pages are impossible… so we’re hearing from authors about how they got them right. In this episode, Juliette Fay discusses the first pages of her newest novel, The Half of It. We talk about how her early instincts helped her shape the rest of the book, including her theme, her character’s wound, the book’s inciting incident, using “Captain Happen” characters, and how she worked in the necessary backstory as her first scene progressed.Fay's full first chapter can be found here (scroll down on right side).Help local bookstores and our auth...